Excerpt: One of the great political mysteries of the early
2016 presidential campaign has been solved: Hillary Clinton did not leave a tip
at the Chipotle restaurant she visited during her road trip to Iowa on Sunday. "Her
bill was $20 and some change, and they paid with $21 and left" without putting
anything in a tip jar on the counter, Charles Wright, the manager at
the Maumee, Ohio, Chipotle restaurant told Bloomberg. (Hillary
Clinton told us, “Everyday Americans need a champion.” Apparently that champion doesn’t
need to leave tips. Listen. The combined net worth of the Clintons is “anywhere
from $100 to $200 million.” She can afford to tip, and she chooses to not leave
a tip. Right then and there, she’s got the opportunity to help out the people
behind the counter at Chipotle, and she chose not to. We’re supposed to elect
her because she’s going to be the “champion” of “everyday Americans,” but she
decided she needs those coins, totaling less than a dollar, more than the staff
does. -- Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt. You don't get to be a dead-broke
multi-millionaire by throwing money away on the little people. ~Bob)

Excerpt: Apparently some lefties have picked up the habit of leaving little pre-printed screeds
against the practice of tipping, declaring that “I do not leave tips
anywhere because the law governing tipping causes pay inequality” and the
practice “encourages both customers and servers to stereotype and
discriminate.” Let me tell you something you don’t want to hear, anti-tip
lefties: You’re cheap. You like your money, and you don’t like giving up
any more of your money than you absolutely must to get your burrito or meal or
whatever good or service you just purchased. You can dress up your selfishness
and tightfistedness in as many social-justice slogans as you like, the same way
you dress up your burrito with toppings, but you’re not fooling anyone.
You’re greedy. You want money, and you’re not willing to part with another
15 or 20 percent of the agreed price the way everyone else does, because you
don’t care enough about the guy or gal who just served you. You aren’t really
that compassionate. You aren’t really that appreciative of people who work
hard. None of the servers who served you see your little note and nod appreciatively
at your principled stand. They swear under their breath. You’re worse than the
non-tippers who you would call tightwads. Because the ordinary tightwads aren’t
arrogant and selfish enough to claim that they’re doing the wait staff a favor.

Excerpt: As lawmakers debate whether to extend the life of
the highly contested Export-Import Bank, the agency’s chief watchdog said today
it’s likely more indictments could be issued as a result of more than 31
investigations into alleged fraud at the bank.

Michael McCarthy, the agency’s acting inspector general,
made the comments during a joint hearing on the bank with the House Financial
Services and Oversight and Government Reform Committees. Rep. Jim Jordan,
R-Ohio, questioned the bank’s watchdog on the indictment of former Ex-Im
official Johnny Gutierrez, who allegedly accepted bribes from a Florida company in
exchange for help securing taxpayer-backed financing.

Excerpt: The Clinton Foundation said late Wednesday that it
will continue to accept donations from foreign governments during Hillary
Clinton's presidential campaign, despite concerns that such gifts will create a
conflict of interest for the Democratic front-runner. The foundation's board
said that donations directly to the foundation would only be allowed from six
governments — Australia,
Canada, Germany, the Netherlands,
Norway and the United Kingdom.
However, other governments could continue to participate in the Clinton Global
Initiative (CGI), a subsidiary program that encourages donors to match
contributions from others to tackle international problems without direct
donations to the charity.

Excerpt: America's
financial problems could not be solved by raising taxes on the rich, Bill
Clinton said on Wednesday. During an economic speech in Washington,
D.C. at GeorgetownUniversity caught on tape by Breitbart News former President Bill Clinton
hypothetically said taking all of rich peoples' money wouldn't be enough to
balance the United States
budget.

Clinton, who is the richest living president, said he
doesn't mind paying higher taxes than other Americans, 'but you could tax me at
a hundred percent, and we couldn't bring growth back into the economy enough to
balance the budget.' (But the Democrats keep willing the votes of middle and
lower income American by passing programs they promise will be paid for by
somebody else. ~Bob)

Excerpt: American Universities are now places where students
can launch heresy trials against professors for expressing politically
incorrect opinions. Laura Kipnis is a professor in the department of radio,
television, and film at NorthwesternUniversity. She recently
wrote an editorial that was
published in the Chronicle of Higher Education: “Sexual Paranoia
Strikes Academe.” (Smart male students will stop dating female students and
will avoid being alone with them. Risk is now too great. I had a black roommate
in college, Joe Ferguson. Doubt that would be happen today--he's get too much
heat from other militant black students. ~Bob)

Important: Greece in new downgrade by S&P for
"unsustainable" commitments

Excerpt: Gwynnie P is down with the struggle, comrades. She
may make $19 million a year, own mansions in London, New York, Brentwood,
Malibu and the Hamptons, charge $550 for her Goop.com “travel backgammon set,”
and fly by private jet, but she feels your pain. OK, it’s not as painful as her
last $5,200 Thermage session in Santa
Monica, but still, she really, really does feel the
agony of the ordinary. (Young, fit-looking guy at Walgreens tried to buy two
energy drinks with his SNAP card. It denied them, so he paid with a $100 bill.
After he left, the tired-looking, forty-something clerk looked at me and said,
"Our money." Just that. ~Bob)

Excerpt: Even the most ardent supporters of taxing the rich
are starting to realize that the estate tax is more bother than it's worth. It
doesn't really target the very wealthy as much as it does those who are less
wealthy but have planned their estates in order to pay as
little of it as possible. Many heirs are asset rich, but cash poor. It only
accounts for about one percent of federal
tax revenues. Moreover, it does a poor job of redistributing wealth
since most fortunes now are earned, not inherited.

Excerpt: Currently, the federal government seizes over 40
percent of an individual's estate when they die. While the President wants to
destroy so many of those legacies and raise taxes,
Congress has the chance to go in a different direction. Supporters often claim
the death tax is vital for revenue, but in reality, it is a poor way for a
state to raise revenue and has led people to leave a given state. According to
a study by
the Ocean State Research Institute, the death tax was the primary factor in
residents leaving Rhode Island.
The study found 107,086 or (one in ten)
residents left the state between 1991 and 2009. While the state collected
$341.3 million in estate tax receipts, it lost over $500 million in other taxes
due to people migrating to other states.

Chicago: Economic Death Spiral After 84 Years of
Democratic Control. By Larry Elder

Excerpt: Public schools are a mess, and the city's finances
place their bonds at near junk level. In 2013, the city averaged 36 homicides a
month, with the majority of them unsolved. CNN aired a series on Chicago called
"Chicagoland," starring the city's dynamic mayor. ... The eight-part
series showed a beleaguered city, struggling to get by on limited funds. In
one episode,
a valiant but embattled inner-city high
school principal literally maps out
"safe passage zones" -- routes her students could take to and from
school to avoid gang violence. Think of it. A public school principal literally
advising students on how they can go to and from school -- without getting
shot.

Excerpt: Scientism has similarly characterized Progressivism
from its beginnings. The core conceit of progressives is that traditional
knowledge and wisdom are inadequate for understanding human nature and solving
the more complex problems created by industrialism and new technologies. Those
problems needed “sciences” like sociology, economics, and psychology: “The
great triumph of modern psychology,” Walter Lippmann wrote in 1914, “is the
growing capacity for penetrating to the desires that govern our
thought.” Thus we need government by the elite “hundreds who are wise,” as
Woodrow Wilson put it in 1887, and “enlightened administration,” as F.D.R.
called it in 1932. Politics should no longer be, as the Founders envisioned,
about leaders of virtue, experience, and wisdom governing within the
Constitutional order that protects political freedom from conflicting factions
and clashing “passions and interests.” (See: The GreatProgressiveChurchby Robert A. Hall

Excerpt: The additional statements have prompted prosecutors
to confirm they are reviewing the earlier case, which they said wasn’t
prosecuted because the passenger couldn’t be identified. Lynn Kimbrough, a
spokeswoman for the Denver prosecutor’s
office, told the Post, “We were looking at it before through the narrow lens of
a sex crime – now we’re broadening our perspective. It’s possible that some
other charge may be appropriate.” ... “The media coverage may help us identify
actual victims and that could make all the difference in how we go forward, but
we are still in the investigative part of the process,” she said.

Excerpt: Sen. Rand Paul lambasted President Barack Obama’s
nominee for attorney general, Loretta Lynch, at a Senate
hearing Wednesday because of her role in “horrendous
abuses” of civil asset forfeiture laws while a U.S. attorney. ...“Loretta
Lynch became famous for her Herculean confiscation of private property,” Paul,
who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, said at the
hearing. Paul said Lynch confiscated over $100 million dollars during her time
as U.S. attorney
using the process of civil asset forfeiture, a process wrought with abuses.

Excerpt: Number one—Cuba is still involved with terrorism
and is still harboring American and Spanish terrorists in Cuba—is still
involved with Hamas and Hezbollah,” Suchlicki told the Daily Caller....
(Joanne) Chesimard fled the United
States for Cuba in
1979 during a prison break 2 years after she was convicted of killing execution-style New JerseyState trooper Werner Foerster. She
has been living in Castro’s regime ever since. According to the New York Times,
she has been studying, writing and, caring for her daughter “as a guest” of the
Cuban Government, which refuses to extradite her to the United States.
(Expect she will be welcomed with open arms by Regime to join Sharpton's black
liberation crew. --Barb)

Excerpt: Vijay Chokal-Ingam, whose family immigrated from India,
and who is the brother of sitcom actress Mindy Kaling, recently confessed that
he, too, once changed his ethnic identity in frustration over not being
admitted to medical school. The dark-skinned Chokal-Ingam shaved his head, used
his middle name Jojo, and was admitted to Saint LouisMedicalSchool as a minority
African-American. Was he or was he not “black”? Bush and Chokal-Ingam are not
the only ones who may be confused about ethnic identity or may believe such
identity can be assumed or alleged instead of being innate. Massachusetts Sen.
Elizabeth Warren for much of her career advantageously checked off
“Native American” when under consideration
for law professorships.

VIDEO: Teens Launch
Mob Attack on Man With Toddler… Here’s Why the Media Is Ignoring It

Excerpt: Surveillance footage showed a group of black teens
launching a brutal, unprovoked
mob-style attack on a man who was simply getting into his vehicle at a
BP gas station in Memphis, Tenn., Monday. Memphis police said
the teens were students at Northwest Prep academy and attacked the black
man for
absolutely no reason — and the national media has all but ignored it,
apparently because it was a black-on-black crime. Rest assured that if this was
a group of white children attacking the same black man, Memphis would have already erupted
in city-wide protests.

Excerpt: SyracuseUniversity alumni are new
additions to the lengthening list of persons who can stop contributing to their
alma maters. The university has succumbed — after, one suspects, not much
agonizing — to the temptation to indulge in progressive gestures. It will
divest all fossil fuel stocks from its endowment. It thereby trumps Stanford,
whose halfhearted exercise in right-mindedness has been to divest only coal
stocks. Evidently carbon from coal is more morally disquieting than carbon from
petroleum. The effect of these decisions on consumption of fossil fuels will be
nil; the effect on the growth of institutions' endowments will be negative. The
effect on alumni giving should be substantial, because divesting institutions
are proclaiming that the goal of expanding educational resources is less
important than the striking of righteous poses — if there can be anything
righteous about flamboyant futility.

In Defense of Fossil
Fuels, CO2, Prosperity, and Skeptical Scientists. By John Hayward

Excerpt: Well, then they wouldn’t want anything to do with
the likes of the Climategate authors who admitted “obfuscating climate
science,” or promoters of the false “hockey stick” graph that conjured
historical warming trends out of tortured data, or former NASA scientist James
Hansen, whose global warming predictions were off by a good 400 percent, would
they? But of course, that’s not the kind of “obfuscation” they have in mind. Hansen
is the first signatory on the letter. Their example of a forbidden museum
sponsor is, of course, David Koch of the Koch Brothers, who loom so large as
devils in the left’s theology. The writers of this letter definitely know who
their audience is and what sort of whistles they respond to. (I want the oil
companies and the Koch Brothers to know that I'm still accepting donations from
them. ~Bob)

Excerpt: As consumers, we pay for electricity twice: once
through our monthly electricity bill and a second time through taxes that
finance massive subsidies for inefficient wind and other energy producers. Most
cost estimates for wind power disregard the heavy burden of these subsidies on
US taxpayers. But if Americans realized the full cost of generating energy from
wind power, they would be less willing to foot the bill – because it’s more
than most people think. Over the past 35 years, wind energy – which supplied just 4.4% of US electricity in 2014 – has
received US$30 billion in federal subsidies and grants.

Excerpt: Four students were arrested after disrupting
the planned showing of “American Sniper” Friday evening in the EMUStudentCenter Auditorium. The
film had begun but was stopped and eventually cancelled. The 10
p.m. showing was cancelled as well. (If we don't like it, you can't see
it. ~Bob)

Christians in Pakistan
Continue Faithfully Even in the Face of Horrible Persecution

Excerpt: A bombshell revelation has emerged about the
incident responsible for the greatest U.S. Air Force loss of life during the
War on Terror, the deadliest “green-on-blue” attack during U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. On April 27, 2011,
Afghan Air Force Colonel Ahmad Gul gunned down eight U.S. Air Force personnel
and a civilian contractor inside the Afghan Air Force headquarters, including
investigators who had just arrived in the country to examine rampant corruption
in the Afghan military.

Wisconsin: Public school students must “pretend
you’re a Muslim.” By Robert Spencer, Jihadwatch.Org

Excerpt: Once they’re pretending they’re Muslim, students
must describe the “struggles” they face. When will UnionGroveHigh School have students
pretend that they’re Nigerian Christians, and the struggles they face when
Muslims of Boko Haram come to their village, burn down their church, and take
their female children captive as sex slaves? When will UnionGroveHigh
School have students pretend they’re Jews in Paris, mocked and menaced and physically
attacked by Muslims for daring to be Jews? (If they get into it, they'll murder
any gay students. ~Bob)

Excerpt: On the morning of March 25, a Russian-made Syrian
scud missile estimated to have been fired from a range of 180 kilometers
exploded near the Reyhanli district in Turkey's
southernmost city of Hatay, neighboring Syria. The
projectile left a 15-meter-wide crater in a stream bed, broke the windows of
the surrounding houses, caused the roof of a building in the nearby military
unit to collapse, damaged two military vehicles and inflicted minor injuries on
five Turkish civilians.

1 comment:

Re: HIllary Clinton not tipping... She tried to take a tax deduction on a donation of Bill's used skivvies - not padding the amount for stains. Good grief. Anyone that tight has her own panties in a cinched knot and to great relief there's no room for so much as slipping in a single George W. (not Bush). She is a piece (of work) all right.